Microsoft’s Mac BU welcomes yet another new general manager

Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has gotten a new general manager only a year and …

It was just over a year ago when Microsoft's Mac Business Unit—also known as the Mac BU—welcomed Craig Eisler into the fold as its new General Manager. Well now, Craig has moved onto bigger and better things, most notably a new role within the Entertainment & Devices division of Microsoft. So who's taking his place? Eric Wilfrid, a 14-year Microsoft vet who has been building Mac software at Microsoft since 1997.

In a new blog post to the Mac BU's Mac Mojo, Wilfrid introduced himself as the new GM, discussing his history with Microsoft and experience with the Mac. "Most recently I was the Product Unit Manager of the MacBU Silicon Valley team, based in Mountain View, CA," Wilfrid wrote. "In that role I managed a team of engineers in developing Office for Mac and other MacBU products." He added that his first Mac was an SE/30 (hey, so was mine!) that ran Word 3 and had 5MB of RAM that he installed in order to use it for his first college computer science class.

Wilfrid did not go into detail on what his plans are for the Mac BU and Mac Office, but we are sure that they're in very good hands. At the very least, we are comforted by the fact that Eisler is no longer pulling the strings to decide which band is playing at the Macworld Blast party (just kidding Craig, we loved Devo last year—really). Welcome, Eric!